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Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees
Many animals benefit from synchronizing their daily activities with conspecifics. In this hybrid paper, we first review recent literature supporting and extending earlier evidence for a lack of clear relationship between the level of sociality and social entrainment of circadian rhythms. Social entr...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34420390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0342 |
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author | Siehler, Oliver Wang, Shuo Bloch, Guy |
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description | Many animals benefit from synchronizing their daily activities with conspecifics. In this hybrid paper, we first review recent literature supporting and extending earlier evidence for a lack of clear relationship between the level of sociality and social entrainment of circadian rhythms. Social entrainment is specifically potent in social animals that live in constant environments in which some or all individuals do not experience the ambient day-night cycles. We next focus on highly social honeybees in which there is good evidence that social cues entrain the circadian clocks of nest bees and can override the influence of conflicting light-dark cycles. The current understanding of social synchronization in honeybees is consistent with self-organization models in which surrogates of forager activity, such as substrate-borne vibrations and colony volatiles, entrain the circadian clocks of bees dwelling in the dark cavity of the nest. Finally, we present original findings showing that social synchronization is effective even in an array of individually caged callow bees placed on the same substrate and is improved for bees in connected cages. These findings reveal remarkable sensitivity to social time-giving cues and show that bees with attenuated rhythms (weak oscillators) can nevertheless be socially synchronized to a common phase of activity. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology’. |
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spelling | pubmed-83809772021-12-05 Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees Siehler, Oliver Wang, Shuo Bloch, Guy Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Articles Many animals benefit from synchronizing their daily activities with conspecifics. In this hybrid paper, we first review recent literature supporting and extending earlier evidence for a lack of clear relationship between the level of sociality and social entrainment of circadian rhythms. Social entrainment is specifically potent in social animals that live in constant environments in which some or all individuals do not experience the ambient day-night cycles. We next focus on highly social honeybees in which there is good evidence that social cues entrain the circadian clocks of nest bees and can override the influence of conflicting light-dark cycles. The current understanding of social synchronization in honeybees is consistent with self-organization models in which surrogates of forager activity, such as substrate-borne vibrations and colony volatiles, entrain the circadian clocks of bees dwelling in the dark cavity of the nest. Finally, we present original findings showing that social synchronization is effective even in an array of individually caged callow bees placed on the same substrate and is improved for bees in connected cages. These findings reveal remarkable sensitivity to social time-giving cues and show that bees with attenuated rhythms (weak oscillators) can nevertheless be socially synchronized to a common phase of activity. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology’. The Royal Society 2021-10-11 2021-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8380977/ /pubmed/34420390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0342 Text en © 2021 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Siehler, Oliver Wang, Shuo Bloch, Guy Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees |
title | Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees |
title_full | Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees |
title_fullStr | Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees |
title_full_unstemmed | Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees |
title_short | Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees |
title_sort | social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34420390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0342 |
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